Knocking on the Doors of Courts
Catalina Smulovitz, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina, in coversation with Andrea Castagnola, UiB, about access to justice in Argentina.
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The democratic transition in Argentina in 1983 brought into light the systematic violations of human rights during the last authoritarian regime. One of the main particularities of Argentina regarding how to deal with these past abuses was the early judicial treatment of those violations and the determined pursuit of justice through judicial and non-judicial retribution measures. However, several laws enacted by former presidents created a judicial impasse in this process until 2003 when the Supreme Court declared these amnesty laws unconstitutional.
Catalina Smulovitz, one of the most well-known experts on the topic in Argentina, in conversation with Andrea Castagnola, Argentinean political scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, will discuss the political and social implications of the long and persistent process of access to justice for past human rights violations. They will also analyse the implications of these processes for other important current cases dealing with rights protection in Argentinean courts.
The seminar is jointly organised by the Cluster on rights and legal institutions and the Centre on Law & Social Transformation.
Free and open for all.
Refreshments will be served.